# evolve
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēvolvō (“unroll, unfold”), from ē- (“out of”) (short form of ex) + volvō (“roll”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪˈvɒlv/
* (General American) IPA: /ɪˈvɑlv/, /-ˈvɔlv/, /iˈ-/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒlv
* Hyphenation: e‧volve

### Verb

evolve (third-person singular simple present evolves, present participle evolving, simple past and past participle evolved)
* (transitive)
** To move (something) in regular procession through a system.
*** a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:The animal soul sooner expands and evolves it self to its full orb and extent than the humane Soul
** To change or transform (something).
    Over several years the author evolved the story originally drafted as a novella into a real epic.
** To cause (something) to come into being or develop.
*** 1939, P. G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the Springtime:You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved.
*** 1979 August 25, Vicki Gabriner, Susan Freundlich, “Bridging the Gaps between Deaf and Hearing Lesbians”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 6, page 8:The interpreter has spent a whole lot of time working the music before the performance, trying to evolve the most accurate translation possible.
*** 2005, Donald Keene, quoting Emperor Kōmei, Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His world, 1852–1912‎, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, chapter 9, page 78:[…] I ask you, rather, to evolve a suitable plan with due deliberation and report it to me."$^{14}$
** (biology)
*** Of a population: to acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.
**** 2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist‎, archived from the original on 3 September 2013:Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.
    How long ago did birds evolve beaks?
*** (chiefly passive voice) To cause (a population, a species, etc.) to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
    A hundred thousand years from now, will Homo sapiens have evolved into beings unrecognizable to their ancestors?
**** 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Recapitulation and Conclusion”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 490:There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
**** 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 204:The ice age was nearly two million years old by the time the woolly mammoth evolved.
** (chemistry) To give off (a gas such as carbon dioxide or oxygen) during a chemical reaction.
    to evolve odours
** (obsolete) To wind or unwind (something).
*** [1795], James Woodhouse, “[To William Shenstone, Esq. in His Sickness.] Elegy VI. To a Lady, on the Language of the Birds.”, in William Shenstone, The Poetical Works of William Shenstone. […], Cooke’s edition, London: […] C. Cooke, […], →OCLC, page 54, lines 9–12:And come, my Muſe! that lov'ſt the ſylvan ſhade, / Evolve the mazes, and the miſt diſpel; / Tranſlate the ſong; convince my doubting maid / No ſolemn Derviſe can explain ſo vvell— […]
* (intransitive)
** To move in regular procession through a system.
*** 1840, William Whewell, “Of Art and Science”, in The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon Their History. […], volume II, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […]; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: J. and J. J. Deighton, →OCLC, part II (Of Knowledge), book XI (Of the Construction of Science), paragraph 6, page 275:[T]he principles which Art involves, Science alone evolves.
*** 1870, John Shairp, Culture and Religion:Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above.
** To change, to transform.
    What began as a few lines of code has now evolved into a million-line behemoth.
** (biology) Of a trait; to develop within a population through biological evolution.
    How long ago did beaks evolve?

#### Derived terms

* coevolve
* co-evolve
* evolvability
* evolvingly
* microevolve
* nonevolving
* photoevolve
* reevolve

#### Related terms

* evolute
* evolution
* evolutive
* evolvable
* evolvement
* evolver

#### Translations
## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eˈvɔl.ve/
* Rhymes: -ɔlve
* Hyphenation: e‧vòl‧ve

### Verb

evolve
* third-person singular present indicative of evolvere

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /eːˈu̯ol.u̯e/, [eːˈu̯ɔɫ̪u̯ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /eˈvol.ve/, [eˈvɔlve]

### Verb

ēvolve
* second-person singular present active imperative of ēvolvō

## Portuguese
### Verb

evolve
* inflection of evolver:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative